Professional Development Activity Leadership Description
While serving as the Technology Instructional Coach for the Franklin Area School District (FASD) from August of 2010 to October of 2013 I was responsible for all technology focused professional development and held multiple PD sessions on a regular basis. These trainings ranged from just-in-time job embedded training with an individual teacher in the course of our work day to district-wide large group instruction on in-service days, as well as everything in between. During the second semester of the 2010-2011 school year I worked in collaboration with Connie Cunningham, my peer at our neighboring district (Valley Grove School District), to provide over 35 hours of after-school technology training to the teachers of both districts, substitute teachers and those working at local parochial schools. We split the work evenly though I was a newbie and Connie a seasoned instructional coach/technology integrator.
We held a total of 23 different workshop sessions. Some sessions were co-taught and some were facilitated by one of us. In addition, some select workshops were taught by other FASD staff members. During these sessions I served as a site manager and supported the others as they presented. The content covered web 2.0 tools, SMART Technologies, instructional best practices, Google Apps for Education, Moodle, and other technology related topics. Some sessions were stand alone while others were held on multiple days. Three topics were repeated due to the number of teachers who registered. Most sessions were held face-to-face but we also utilized ElluminateLive (Blackboard) to conduct webinar style training to provide flexibility. For the webinars some teachers chose to stay at school and participate individually from their classrooms while others took laptops to a common area and participated in a group setting. Several teachers choose to participate from home due to childcare issues.
Teacher participation was completely voluntary. However, both districts approved the activities for teachers to receive credit toward re-certification. We used a Google Form for registration and I sent confirmations and reminders to teachers via email. In total we provided approximately 45 hours of instruction spread from January through the first week of May. Attending two sessions ensured that a teacher received the minimum of 4 hours of professional development credit. Seventy-five out of approximately 150 teachers in the Franklin Area School District obtained credit. A handful only attended one-session. The hours of credit earned by teachers from FASD ranged from 4 to 36. I do not know the particulars of participation from Valley Grove as each district kept their own records. A link to the spreadsheet populated by registrations is below.
While serving as the Technology Instructional Coach for the Franklin Area School District (FASD) from August of 2010 to October of 2013 I was responsible for all technology focused professional development and held multiple PD sessions on a regular basis. These trainings ranged from just-in-time job embedded training with an individual teacher in the course of our work day to district-wide large group instruction on in-service days, as well as everything in between. During the second semester of the 2010-2011 school year I worked in collaboration with Connie Cunningham, my peer at our neighboring district (Valley Grove School District), to provide over 35 hours of after-school technology training to the teachers of both districts, substitute teachers and those working at local parochial schools. We split the work evenly though I was a newbie and Connie a seasoned instructional coach/technology integrator.
We held a total of 23 different workshop sessions. Some sessions were co-taught and some were facilitated by one of us. In addition, some select workshops were taught by other FASD staff members. During these sessions I served as a site manager and supported the others as they presented. The content covered web 2.0 tools, SMART Technologies, instructional best practices, Google Apps for Education, Moodle, and other technology related topics. Some sessions were stand alone while others were held on multiple days. Three topics were repeated due to the number of teachers who registered. Most sessions were held face-to-face but we also utilized ElluminateLive (Blackboard) to conduct webinar style training to provide flexibility. For the webinars some teachers chose to stay at school and participate individually from their classrooms while others took laptops to a common area and participated in a group setting. Several teachers choose to participate from home due to childcare issues.
Teacher participation was completely voluntary. However, both districts approved the activities for teachers to receive credit toward re-certification. We used a Google Form for registration and I sent confirmations and reminders to teachers via email. In total we provided approximately 45 hours of instruction spread from January through the first week of May. Attending two sessions ensured that a teacher received the minimum of 4 hours of professional development credit. Seventy-five out of approximately 150 teachers in the Franklin Area School District obtained credit. A handful only attended one-session. The hours of credit earned by teachers from FASD ranged from 4 to 36. I do not know the particulars of participation from Valley Grove as each district kept their own records. A link to the spreadsheet populated by registrations is below.
Registration Spreadsheet
Workshop Descriptions
Above document includes short descriptions of workshops conducted by me (as well as others) as part of the above project.